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2007-08-16 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 I suspect that a lot of them were previously in those camps in relative safety in Pakistan, until we let it be known that we knew where they were. So the dumbasses fled to Tora Bora, and walked right into it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-16 00:21|| 2007-08-16 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds about right except by 'let it be known' might really mean that we let Pak intel know and they told their dumbass friends to split.

Posted by JAB 2007-08-16 01:23|| 2007-08-16 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 dug-in fighting positions

How nice of 'em. They dug their own graves...

Posted by PBMcL 2007-08-16 01:26|| 2007-08-16 01:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Is this OUR dreaded summer offensive? You can't dig deep enough.

RIP to the boys from Germany. When I was there many moons ago the PSD guys were GSG-9. BKA does protection work also but usually in permissive (suit and tie) environments. Either way heck of way to go.

Posted by Anguger B. Hayes7857 2007-08-16 07:13|| 2007-08-16 07:13|| Front Page Top

#5 I hope that this time they don't rely on local warlords who speak with forked tongue and that we cut off the trails of retreat. Actually, I'd prefer we make Pakistan stand down along the border and let us assume control and move in from there. I'd like to chase them into the Afghan plains instead of the Pakistan ones.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-08-16 09:27|| 2007-08-16 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 How many MOABs would be sufficient to do the job properly?

Posted by mrp 2007-08-16 10:21|| 2007-08-16 10:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Paging Angel of Death, paging Angel of Death!

*hat tip: "The Hunt for Bin Laden"*

Posted by BA 2007-08-16 10:24|| 2007-08-16 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 More taliwakers getting wacked. Love it.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-08-16 10:53|| 2007-08-16 10:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Relative sizes...

Posted by BigEd 2007-08-16 12:48|| 2007-08-16 12:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Quick, somebody get Geraldo Rivero out there with a revolver again, just in case it turns into a "gunfight" you know....

Posted by 0369Grunt 2007-08-16 12:59|| 2007-08-16 12:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Napalm, willie-pete, and ARCLIGHT strikes, from noon to noon, for five or six consecutive days. Then go in with sponges, ziplock bags, and sterile test-tubes to see who you bagged.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-08-16 15:16|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-08-16 15:16|| Front Page Top

#12 What would be involved in collapsing the passes out?
Daisy? MOAB? bigger?

Posted by 3dc 2007-08-16 15:21|| 2007-08-16 15:21|| Front Page Top

#13 10kt tac nuke would close the passes pretty well.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-08-16 21:16|| 2007-08-16 21:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Make it easy to find 'em in the dark, too.

Posted by lotp 2007-08-16 21:35|| 2007-08-16 21:35|| Front Page Top

#15 lotp, find what? What diff a glowing goo would make?;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2007-08-16 21:41|| 2007-08-16 21:41|| Front Page Top

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